1. Are we allowed to press "Load Game" with Night 1 in the save to skip the Newspaper?
2. After unlocking the Custom Night, can the challenges be done in any order?

(I somehow accidentally posted it on the FNAF 1 page lol)

1.) Nope. Although, you can read up on a different way to skip the newspaper here: https://www.speedrun.com/fnaf1/guide/j2ool (Yes, it's a FNaF 1 guide, but it works for FNaF 2 as well.). 2.) They can be done in any order. You just need to do all of them.

Okay thanks. What about if we use Ctrl+P to pause the game? Should the timer stop as well then?

Or this Clickteam pause is not allowed on the runs?

I don't see any problems with it, but it also isn't something we've tested. We encourage you to experiment with it for now.

(Also, sorry for the late response.)

It's fine, either way I wasn't planning on doing a run anytime soon :)